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Libya retakes key city from Daesh
Libyan forces drive Daesh militants out of a key eastern city.

Libyan forces drive Daesh militants out of a key eastern city.

A new report says the US government is divided over Russia’s ‘military buildup’ in Syria.

A group of Japanese lawmakers visit a controversial war shrine in Tokyo.

Amnesty International reveals Nigeria’s military deliberately killed over 350 Shia Muslims last December and dumped their bodies in mass graves.

A strong earthquake strikes off the coast of Ecuador for a second time.

The Israeli regime plans to close off all entry points to the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip ahead of a Jewish holiday.

Russian forces in Syria have fired at least twice on Israeli military aircraft, Israel's top-selling newspaper says.

Zarif says Iran is not seeking to access the US financial system.

Tens of thousands of people protest in Macedonia’s capital against a government decision to grant pardon to officials accused of fraud and corruption.

US President Obama urges Britons to remain in the EU over interests.

Obama’s hypocritical position on foreign sovereign immunity exposes the US use of its legal system to wage economic war against independent nations.

The corporate masters want Hillary Clinton as the US president, and they are using many tools to put her in the White House, an American journalist says.

Iraqi forces liberate 200 people from the clutches of Takfiri Daesh militants south of Mosul.

The European Union’s interior ministers agree to a proposal for a transnational division of border and coast guard forces to step in against the huge influx of refugees.

Aid groups step up humanitarian aid delivery in conflict-ridden Syria despite failed UN-backed peace talks in Geneva, Switzerland.

Iran's foreign minister says Tehran does not recognize a recent ruling by the US Supreme Court, authorizing the transfer of frozen Iranian assets to the families of the victims of a 1983 bombing.

The Pentagon has conveyed its "displeasure" to Russia after its warplanes repeatedly buzzed a US destroyer and flew close to an American spyplane,

Venezuela is to enforce power cuts in 10 of its 23 states amid economic doldrums that have caused rampant power crisis across the country.